Being Funny Quotes - Page 4

• To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

  Chad Michael Murray

  Girl, Sexy, Thinking

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• There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

  Roger Ebert

  Sight, Comedian, Knows

  Roger Ebert (2006). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.762, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I love being funny and talking with fellas.

  Eddie Jemison

  Love Is, Talking, Fellas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

  Lorrie Moore

  Thinking, Keys, People

  "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

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• I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, People, Way

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

  John Gordon Sinclair

  Trying, Ifs

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• I was always funny, but I didn't know being funny was a gift.

  Niecy Nash

  Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People don't understand that when I'm on the show I'm totally relaxed, hanging out, having a fun time, watching videos, and being goofy. Sometimes I say stupid comments, just being funny, and people think I'm a dumb person.

  Chanel West Coast

  Fun, Stupid, Thinking

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• Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Fun, Looks, Chance

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Different, Way, Dramatic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool, so then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl who's wearing an ugly dress.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Fun, Responsibility

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• Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

  Craig Ferguson

  Art, Done, Form

  "American on Purpose". Book by Craig Ferguson, 2009.

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• I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Reading, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

  Pippa Evans

  Thinking, Boys, Fats

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• I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, Theatre, Clubs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or whatnot, and jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing a fancy lead guitar. And they get mad when I sing a heartfelt emotional song and if there's an album full of them.

  Butch Walker

  Song, Emotional, Jumping

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.

  Kether Donohue

  Nice, Typical, Actresses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.

  Susan Hill

  Trying Everything, Laughing, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty.

  Ed Helms

  Witty, Character, Play

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Sacrifice, Order

  "Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of Superbad". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2007.

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• There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

  Nick Thune

  Thinking, People, Opinion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Kids, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Style, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open to new people. None of that is true in the newspaper industry today. Print in general is pretty rugged. The good thing is that you can gain a foothold on the Internet because everybody has access to it, even things like Twitter - I mean, you can get a reputation for being funny pretty quickly on Twitter, on a blog, that kind of thing.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Mean, People

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Stories, Comedy

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